Adams doesn’t rule out housing migrants on Rikers Island
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Mayor Eric Adams said that he would not take Rikers Island off the table as a potential place to house newly arrived migrants.
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Detainee dies, marking second Rikers death of the year
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A 52-year-old Rikers Island detainee died in a Queens hospital on Tuesday, several days after he was severely injured inside the jail.
Read MoreDOC to slash outside programming for detainees
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The Department of Correction has told half a dozen organizations that provide services and programs to jailed New Yorkers that they will no longer be contracted to work with the agency come July.
Read MoreJail oversight board bungles monthly meeting – again
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The Board of Correction’s monthly meeting fell into chaos after technical difficulties left the board’s livestream sputtering, and after the board’s chair clashed with a criminal justice reform advocate and his fellow board members agitated by the board’s inability to hold its scheduled public hearing.
Read MoreDOC taps former FDNY spokesperson to lead communications team
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Department of Correction leaders tapped a longtime city spokesperson to serve as its deputy commissioner for public information.
Read MoreCity agrees to pay $53 million for solitary confinement violations
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Over 4,000 people who were improperly held in solitary confinement in the city’s jails at various points over the last four years will get a cut of a $53 million settlement the city agreed to last week.
Read MoreLawmakers pitch plan to lower Rikers population
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A group of city councilmembers introduced Tuesday a plan to lower Rikers Island’s population over the next several years ahead of its legally mandated closure in 2027.
Read MorePols protest gov’s bail proposal following Rikers visit
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“We will have blood on our hands if we allow these [bail law] changes to be implemented in our New York State budget,” Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani said, following a visit to Rikers Island this week.
Read MoreConditions on Rikers ‘improve’ but remain ‘troubling’
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In the first major report on Rikers Island since last fall, the federal team monitoring the troubled jail complex says that while conditions remain dire, improvements have very slowly begun to take root.
Read MoreNew Yorkers sound off on lengthy and expensive Brooklyn borough-based jail proposal
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The Department of Design and Construction on Thursday got an earful from New Yorkers upset over a proposed construction contract that would likely delay the closure of Rikers Island by at least two years.
Read MoreOpinion: What to do about Rikers Island
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“No one should be threatened or fearful of a receiver if the goal is to, once and for all, comprehensively, thoughtfully, and successfully address the Rikers mess. It’s long overdue.”
Read MoreSpeaker Adams bashes mayor on plan to close Rikers
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“The inconsistent statements from the administration over the past few days have unacceptably created questions where there should be no questions,” the speaker said. “Rikers must close by 2027 and we cannot allow it to continue undermining public safety issues across our city.”
Read MoreJail oversight board stalls mail digitization plan
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A controversial plan to intercept and digitize detainee mail on Rikers Island has again been kept in limbo after the city’s jail oversight body declined to vote on the plan, months after it was first introduced.
Read More$3 billion and 2 years tardy: Proposed jail contract blows past Rikers closure deadline
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Will the city be able to close Rikers Island by 2027? Likely not, if a newly proposed contract to build the first of the city’s upcoming four borough-based jails is approved as is.
Read MoreTech snafu delays vote on controversial DOC plan to digitize detainee mail
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In an ironic twist, the Board of Correction’s plan to vote on a controversial proposal from the Department of Correction to use technology to digitize detainees’ mail was thwarted by faulty technology on Tuesday.
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